18 must-read religion books like Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World by Rob Bell

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Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

By: Rob Bell

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

I’ve had a sense since I was young that there’s more going on here, that the world is not a cold,…

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1. The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

By: Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adamrecounts his transformative spir… read more

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2. Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

3.76

Format: 6 pages, ebook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if that person you've been trying to avoid is your best shot at grac… read more

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  • memoir
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3. Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

By: Richard Rohr

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the c… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
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4. Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.98

Format: None pages,

Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought… read more

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5. Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By: Richard Rohr

4.23

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

In Falling Upward , Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves o… read more

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"The ego hates losing – even to God."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Life is all about practicing for heaven." p 101."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

"Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable."

-Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

6. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

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7. Genesis for Normal People: A Guide to the Most Controversial, Misunderstood, and Abused Book of the Bible

By: Peter Enns , Jared Byas

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Given the fever-pitched controversies about evolution, Adam and Eve, and scientific evidence for th… read more

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8. Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science

By: Mike McHargue

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the popular podcasts, The Liturgists Podcastand Ask Science Mike, a story of havin… read more

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9. Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.39

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

 One Woman’s Journey Back to Loving the Bible If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instructio… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"The point is, if you pay attention to the women, a more complex history of Israel's conquests emerges. Their stories invite the reader to consider the human cost of violence and patriarchy, and in th…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"In other words, the prophets are weirdos. More than anyone else in Scripture, they remind us that those odd ducks shouting from the margins of society may see things more clearly than the political a…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

"What I love about the Bible is that the story isn't over. There are still prophets in our midst. There are still dragons and beasts. It might not look like it, but the Resistance is winning. The ligh…"

-Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

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10. Wholehearted Faith

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.42

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A new collection of original writings by Rachel Held Evans, whose reflections on faith and life con… read more

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  • memoir
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  • faith
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  • spirituality
  • audiobook
"Many of us have found a renewed sense of possibility when we've realized how much of God's beauty remains to be explored — and that the life of faith is also a life of holy curiosity."

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

"It is nearly impossible to believe: God shrinking down to the size of a zygote, implanted in the soft lining of a woman’s womb. God growing fingers and toes. God kicking and hiccupping in utero. God …"

-Rachel Held Evans, Wholehearted Faith

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11. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

By: Richard Rohr

4.45

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - With a new afterword - From one of the world's most influential spiritu… read more

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  • self help
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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
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12. How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News

By: Peter Enns

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal P… read more

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  • christian
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13. Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

By: Peter Enns

4.36

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

“Peter Enns is brilliant at taking the big topics, those Christian ideas that usually scare us or i… read more

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"Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Like a frail plant that needs careful tending and constant protection from sun and wind, perhaps the real problem wasn’t me but the fragile, unsustainable version of Christianity I had been told was …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

"A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are …"

-Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God)

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14. That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

By: David Bentley Hart

4.26

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Chri… read more

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"As far as I am concerned, anyone who hopes for the universal reconciliation of all creatures with God must already believe that this would be the best possible ending to the Christian story; and such…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

"Really, on the whole, Christians rarely pay particularly close attention to what the Bible actually says, for the simple reason that the texts defy synthesis in a canon of exact doctrines, and yet mo…"

-David Bentley Hart, That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

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15. Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

By: Rob Bell

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

I’ve had a sense since I was young that there’s more going on here, that the world is not a cold,… read more

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16. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more

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17. Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Dubbed "a heroic gate-crasher" by New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, Brian D. McLaren… read more

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18. God Is a Black Woman

By: Christena Cleveland

4.32

Format: 256 pages, ebook

In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more

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19. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

By: Nadia Bolz-Weber

4.21

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more

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"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)

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20. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.25

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Native is about identity, soul-searching, and being on the never-ending journey of finding ourselve… read more

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21. The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

By: Damon Garcia

4.48

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

For thousands of years, religious messages have been used to either uphold the status quo or upend … read more

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"I've always suspected that Jesus was way more radical than the Christians I grew up around could comprehend."

-Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

"A den of robbers is not where people are robbed. A den of robbers is where robbers hide, expecting to be safe."

-Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

"We can either use our faith to empower us to transform the world or use our faith to justify the world as it is."

-Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

"The best way Christians can fulfill the work of the reign of God today is to participate in the work of abolition."

-Damon Garcia, The God Who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus

18 best-selling nonfiction books like Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World by Rob Bell

Transform Your Habits

The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It

Joe Barrett , Peter Enns

3.63

Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People

Nadia Bolz-Weber

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

Richard Rohr

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

Rachel Held Evans

3.98

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New Seeds of Contemplation

Thomas Merton

4.26

Transform Your Habits

What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

Rob Bell

4.32

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The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind

Cynthia Bourgeault

4.12

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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Richard Rohr

4.23

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